4 Tips to Automate your Business…and Do More of What you Love
Kicking off our First Blog Post with...
4 Tips to Automate your Business and Do More of What you Love
Automate Tasks
You probably heard of Trello or Asana. They can seem a bit intimidating at first but whether you are a team of 3 or 30 it can really make things smoother and avoid too many emails. I loved using Asana with our web designer to track our workflow and visualize how far we’ve come.
Automate Scheduling Meetings
There’s nothing more boring than a long email chain debating when to meet and let’s not even mention calculating different time zones. Calendly, YouCanBookMe, Doodle, are some of my favourite scheduling tools. As Doodle’s claim goes “it shouldn’t take 30 emails to to schedule a 30-minute meeting”
Automate Social Media Posting
Consistency is the key to success in any social media plan. We will go deeper on this subject in the upcoming posts. But just to get started, these are some of our go-to tools when it comes to saving time when planning your posts and content strategy: Later, Meet Edgar, Hootsuite. Instead of stressing out on “what am I posting today” think about batching your work on your social media, meaning, writing a lot of the content at once and scheduling it for later.
Automate Communication
It’s hard to be neutral on this one. Our number one favourite is Slack. Think of Whatsapp or if you’re a bit older AIM (AOL chat) in a business setting. Instead of emailing back and forth and sending messages on your private mobile you can chat with your team, share documents, and start group chat . Plus, it’s free.
Automation helps you be more consistent, and, yes, automation can be your best friend. Just take those extra 20 mins to plan ahead and you won’t believe how you lived without these tools before.
Time is your currency, so allocate your time where you’ll be more profitable and more creative.
Team Mod-à-Tech
